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    Although the narrators in This Boy’s Life: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff and The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore both have especially strong female role models, their experiences detailed ,the time period that they grew up in, and their father figures differ dramatically. In This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, we read that Tobias and his mother begin traveling across the United States in 1955 to “get away from a man that she was afraid of.” (Wolff, 1989) Similarly, in The Other Wes Moore: One

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    My Life With My Family

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    rollercoaster, but I am grateful to be living it with my family and friends. My family has taught me many lessons that I will always apply to my decision making for the rest of my life. Loyalty, honesty, and respect has been taught to me ever since I learned how to speak. The communication between my family and I is very important because I know that my voice matters. Support will always be something that my parents continue to give me even when I fail. My family and friends has shaped who I am today and

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    My father migrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1980s, due to the impoverished conditions including the high rates of unemployment. As a result, my father became a United States permanent resident, which granted him with the opportunity of petitioning for his entire family. In 2000 we obtained our United States permanent residence cards and my family and I migrated to United States along with my father seeking the American Dream. In the midst of all, my father, my sister, my brother became

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    aspect about myself, that goes unnoticed in my life is my determination. Determination has been a trait of mine for the majority of my life. Both my mother and father are very determined people. Having them as my role models growing up, I always wanted to one day be like them. I personally believe this is where my determination aspect came from. I don’t think that I was born with it, but rather developed it because of the people I was surrounded by in my life.     Raised by a family like mine, I

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    Days A father is one who can be pictured as the male provider of an offspring. He is someone who is there for the child when things are going rough, such as when the child gets sick. The father is also there to teach the child right from wrong and also to teach the child how to survive in life. On the other hand, a dad is someone who just helps a woman to produce an offspring. He’s never there in the child’s life unless he has to be or is forced to be. In Raymond Carver’s “Photograph of My Father in

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    Who am I and How am I different from Client? My client is very different from me. I have had every support system available to me to provide a safe, healthy atmosphere for optimal development. This does not mean I was handed everything to me in life but that I had very little barriers to pursue opportunities. My client is the opposite. From every developmental stage to systems and subsystems in her life she was met with adversity, trauma. She was deprived basic needs of life in addition to educational

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    factor in a young woman’s life. There are the good influences, the bad influences, the role models, and many more. But there is always someone who has a more profound impact on that young woman than anyone else. That person in my life is my father. For the past 18 years, he has shaped my personality and my way of living through his lovable, adventurous, and hard-working personality. Upon first meeting him, my father is a man that is hard to dislike. He is tall, a little wider, with a huge smile,

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    The Scope Of My Existence

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    The Scope of My Existence To bring my life into perspective, I must first take the time to explain what areas of my life I will be covering. I will be explicating on the social inheritance that has positioned me in my life. Also, I will be giving a detailed description of my life’s role models which I have followed closely, while trying to closely mimic their successes and divert myself away from their failures by experience and observations. Next, I will be describing the practices that I have

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    Bio Munoz Research Paper

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    My full name is Jose Gustavo Munoz and I have currently taken an oath to serve my community college as the Triton College Student Trustee. I am struck with awe when I think about how my life, family, and education have paved the path that I walk, and I couldn’t be any more proud of how far I have gone and how much farther I have yet to go. I was born and raised in Jerez de Garcia Salinas, Zacatecas Mexico in 1996. I acknowledged the fact that both my parents had been able to attend college and worked

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    in two months; but I became a man on October 6th, 2013. It was by far the most heartbreaking new we had ever received, but it was also my time to become a man. I was just a child when I saw everything come falling down. My father was dying right in front of our eyes, and none of us knew it. As terrible as it sounds I wish I never would’ve found out. My father name was Omar Sanchez and boy was he the most cuban person you ever met. He had a thick moustache and an addiction to liquor and tobacco

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